Method of making receipts folder

ABSTRACT

A receipts folder is made of heavy paper and folded back on itself with juxtaposed faces being bonded together, so as to be in book form. Slits on the inner layer provide access to pockets into which receipts may be placed. A sequence of method steps includes printing on one face, die cutting slits, scoring, printing a bonding agent in a pattern on the opposite face, folding in half, trimming, and then final folding.

United States Patent [191 Falcon [54] METHOD OF MAKING RECEIPTS FOLDER [76] Inventor: Floyd B. Falcon, 58 Ridge Rd.,

Phoenixville, Pa. 19460 [22] Filed: Sept. 18, 1972 [21] Appl. No.: 289,895

[52] U.S. Cl. 93/35 PC, 93/13, 93/61 R, 156/227, 156/257, 156/277, 156/291, 229/72 [5l] Int. Cl B31b 49/04 [58] Field of Search 93/35 PC, 34, 35 R, 6l R, 93/61 A, 73, 13; 229/72; 206/39, 40.5; 156/291, 257, 227, 277

. [56] References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,568,941 9/1951 Benson 229/72 2,950,855 8/1960 Zahner 229/72 3,104,596 9/1963 Bergstein e al. 93/35 PC X [45] Nov. 26, 1974 Johnson 93/35 PC McIntyre ISO/39 Primary Examiner-Roy Lake Assistant Examiner-J ames F. Coan Attorney, Agent, or Firm-Seidel, Gonda & Goldhammer [57 ABSTRACT 9 Claims, 7 Drawing Figures PATENTMMSISM 4SHEET 30? FIG. 4

METHOD OF MAKING RECEIPTS FOLDER The folder of the present invention is structurally interrelated in a manner so as to provide a plurality of pockets for preserving in segregated form various receipts. The pockets are preferably provided with identifying indicia and may be utilized to preserve all of the particular receipts in connection with a specific income tax deduction, the receipts from a particular store, all of the recipes with respect to a particular meal, etc.

The folder of the present invention is made of heavy paper folded back on itself and then folded transversely so as to be in the form of a book with each layer being of double thickness. The juxtaposed surfaces of the paper are bonded to one another. The inner layer is provided with slits coordinated with a pattern of the bonding agent so as to define parallel pockets into which the various receipts may be inserted.

In making the folder of the present invention, indicia is printed on one face of a sheet. Slits are die cut on one-half of the sheet. Score lines are applied longitudinally of said one sheet half and transversely across the middle of the sheet. Thereafter, a bonding agent is printed or otherwise applied to the opposite face of the sheet in a pattern related to the slits. The bonding agent is preferably applied to the entire surface of said opposite face of the sheet in a predetermined pattern.

Thereafter, the sheet is folded in half along said transverse score line so that the bonding agent between the sheet halves joins the sheet halves, thereby providing an interim sheet of double thickness. Thereafter, the resultant interim sheet is folded along a line which is perpendicular to said transverse line so as to produce a folder in book form with slits on the inside faces cooperating with the bonding agent to define pockets between the layers of the folder. The slits provide access to the pockets.

An object of the present invention is to provide a novel folder and method of making the same, whereby separate documents such as receipts may be collected in separate pockets.

It is another object of the present invention to provide a receipts folder and method of making the same which is simple, inexpensive, and capable of being made at high speeds.

Other objects will appear hereinafter.

For the purpose of illustrating the invention, there is shown in the drawings a form which is presently preferred; it being understood, however, that this invention is not limited to the precise arrangements and instrumentalities shown.

FIG. 1 is a plan view of a sheet which has been printed and die cut.

F IG. 2 is a plan view of the sheet shown in FIG. l with subsequent scoring steps applied thereto.

FIG. 3 is a diagrammatic illustration of the manner in which the bonding agent may be applied to a face of the sheet shown in FIG. 2, but opposite the surface containing the printing illustrated therein.

FIG. 4 is a plan view of the sheet shown in FIG. 2, but showing the opposite face thereof with the bonding agent pattern applied thereto by way of the apparatus shown in FIG. 3. Y

FIG. 5 is a plan view of the folder of the present invention after a first folding step.

FIG. 6 is a view similar to FIG. 5, but showing the folder after being trimmed.

FIG. 7 is a perspective view of the folder of the present invention. I

Referring to the drawing in detail, wherein like numerals indicate like elements, there is shown in FIG. 7 the folder in accordance with the present invention designated generally as 10. The folder 10 is in book form so as to have a front leaf l2 and a rear leaf 14 pivotably connected to a spine 16.

The folder 10 is preferably made from a flat sheet 18 of heavy paper such as 14 point tag stock clay-coated on both sides. The sheet 18 is first printed with indicia 20 on one quarter of the sheet which will form a part of the front leaf 12. Simultaneously, the opposite half of the sheet 18 is printed with indicia 22 indicative of various pockets in the folder as well as indicia 24 defining the limits of the various pockets. As shown more clearly in FIG. l, certain pockets may be smaller than others. The indicia 24 simulates a pocket having a flap at the upper end thereof and in vertical and horizontal rows.

Referring to FIG. 2, subsequent steps include die cutting the upper half of the sheet 18 by providing the slits 26-38 inclusive. Simultaneously, the sheet 18 is provided with a transverse score line 40 which may be a die cut score line. At the same time, the sheet 18 is longitudinally weakened by the provision of score lines 42 and 44 which ldelimit the spine 16 and the perforation lines 46 and 48. The perforation lines 46 and 48 are aligned with the score lines 42 and 44.

The thusly processed s heet 18 is then turned over so that the opposite face is the uppermost surface and onto which is applied a bonding agent. The bonding agent may be applied utilizing any conventional apparatus such as the apparatus shown in FIG. 3. As shown in FIG. 3, the sheets 18 are fed by means of conveyor 50 between a print roller 52 and an anvil roller 54. Roller 52 may be the rubber blank cylinder roller from an offset press while roller 54 is the impression roller on such offset press.

The bonding agent 56 at room temperature is continuously applied by means of a doctor roller 58 to a transfer roller 60. Roller 60 applies the bonding agent to the surface of roller 52 which has been processed so as to have a printing surface in a particular pattern for printing the bonding agent onto sheet 18.

Cylinder 54 typically has grippers for engaging and holding the side edges of the sheet 18. From the nip of rollers 52, 54, the sheet is transferred to grippers 64 on spaced parallel chains 62 which embrace the sheet along margins 72, 74. In a conventional manner, the grippers 64 are released when the sheet 18 is disposed over a conveyor belt 66. The conveyor belt 66 may be utilized to transport the sheet 18 through a heating over for drying the bonding agent S6.

Bonding agent 56 may be any one of a wide variety of adhesives, cements, or liquid vinyl heat seal. I prefer to use as the bonding agent a latex cohesive which is commercially available under the brand name Manhattan No. S00. A cohesive will stick to itself, but will not stick to other paper and therefore is easy to handle. Such a cohesive will be dried or cured in a temperature rangeof to 200 F within a couple of seconds.

Referring to FIG. 4, which shows the opposite face of sheet 18, it will be noted that the cohesive is printed in a particular pattern orientated with respect to the slits 26-38 so as to be closely adjacent thereto. The bonding agent is printed in a pattern which is spaced inwardly from the margins 72, 74 at side edges of the sheet so as to provide space for gripping and handling the sheet without touching the bonding agent. The identical bonding agent pattern is applied to the sheet half 68 and the sheet half 70 so as to delineate the pockets to be formed as described hereinafter. The blank spaces in FIG. 4 correspond in size and location to indicia 24.

Subsequent processing of the thusly described sheet 18 includes folding the sheet along the score line 40 so that the sheet half 68 overlies the sheet half 70. During this step, the cohesive bonding agent 56 on one sheet half will be joined to the bonding agent on the other sheet half. The resultant product at this point will be as illustrated in FIG. 5. Thereafter, the resultant product is trimmed along the margins 72 and 74 so as to produce the product as shown in FIG. 6.

At this point, it will be noted that the perforation lines 46 and 48 overlie the score lines 42 and 44, respectively. Final folding of the product along the score lines 46 and 48 will delineate the spine 16 and produce the folder as illustrated in FIG. 7. If desired, the spine 16 may be eliminated by utilizing only a single perforation line 46 and a single score line 42. The immediate bonding of the cohesive patterns results in pockets defined at their upper end by the slits 26-38 inclusive. Thus, receipts of a common nature may be put into a common pocket as identified by the indicia 22.

vThe process for producing the folder l as described above is simple, inexpensive, and may be performed at high speeds. The printing of the indicia 20-24 may be accomplished by one pass between printing rollers. The step of providing the die cut slits, the score lines and the perforation lines as described above in connection with FIG. 2 may be accomplished in a single pass between a steel rule die and impression cylinder or platen. Conventional equipment may be utilized to effect the folding of the sheet 18 from the position shown in FIG. 4 to the position shown in FIG. 5. Likewise, conventional trimming equipment may be utilized to trim the margins 72 and 74. Also, conventional folding equipment may be utilized to fold the sheet from the disposition shown in FIG. 6 to that shown in FIG. 7.

The present invention may be embodied in other specific forms without departing from the spirit or essential attributes thereof and, accordingly, reference should be made to the appended claims, rather than to the foregoing specification as indicating the scope of the invention. i

I claim:

1. A method of making a folder comprising the steps of printing indicia on one face of a sheet, die cutting slits on one half of said printed sheet, applying a transverse score line across the middle of the sheet, applying a bonding agent to the opposite face of said sheet in a pattern adjacent to said slits, then folding said sheet along said score line so that the bonding agent is between the sheet halves and joins the sheet halves, and then folding the sheet halves in a central region along a line perpendicular to said score line so that the folder resembles a book with the slits on the inside faces and cooperating with said pattern to define pockets into which loose documents may be inserted.

2. A method in accordance with claim l wherein said step of applying a bonding agent includes printing a bonding agent on both halves of said opposite side of the sheet in a matching pattern.

3. A method in accordance with claim 1 wherein said step of applying a bonding agent includes printing a pattern on the half of the sheet containing said slits with a bonding agent which is a cohesive.

4. A method in accordance with claim 3 including the step of drying the cohesive before folding said sheet along said score line.

5. A method in accordance with claim l including the step of longitudinally weakening a zone of said sheet before said step of applying a bonding agent so as to define a discrete spine.

6. A method of making a receipt folder comprising the step of printing indicia on one face of a sheet, die cutting slits on one half of said sheet, applying a transverse weakened line across the center of the sheet, applying a bonding agent to the opposite face of said sheet, said applying step including applying a bonding agent to said opposite face in a pattern delimiting pockets with the bonding agent being immediately adjacent to one edge of said slits, said die cutting step including providing spaced parallel slits, folding said sheet along said transverse line so that the bonding agent is between the sheet halves and joins the sheet halves, then folding the sheet in a central region along a line perpendicular to said transverse line so that the folder resembles a book with the slits on the inside faces.

7. A method in accordance with claim 6 wherein said step of applying a bonding agent includes applying a cohesive in a matching pattern on both halves of said opposite face.

8. A method in accordance with claim 1 wherein said sheet is a sheet of heavy paper.

9. A method in accordance with claim 1 wherein said printing step includes printing on said one face on opposite sides of the transverse score line.

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1. A method of making a folder comprising the steps of printing indicia on one face of a sheet, die cutting slits on one half of said printed sheet, applying a transverse score line across the middle of the sheet, applying a bonding agent to the opposite face of said sheet in a pattern adjacent to said slits, then folding said sheet along said score line so that the bonding agent is between the sheet halves and joins the sheet halves, and then folding the sheet halves in a central region along a line perpendicular to said score line so that the folder resembles a book with the slits on the inside faces and cooperating with said pattern to define pockets into which loose documents may be inserted.
 2. A method in accordance with claim 1 wherein said step of applying a bonding agent includes printing a bonding agent on both halves of said opposite side of the sheet in a matching pattern.
 3. A method in accordance with claim 1 wherein said step of applying a bonding agent includes printing a pattern on the half of the sheet containing said slits with a bonding agent which is a cohesive.
 4. A method in accordance with claim 3 including the step of drying the cohesive before folding said sheet along said score line.
 5. A method in accordance with claim 1 including the step of longitudinally weakening a zone of said sheet before said step of applying a bonding agent so as to define a discrete spine.
 6. A method of making a receipt folder comprising the step of printing indicia on one face of a sHeet, die cutting slits on one half of said sheet, applying a transverse weakened line across the center of the sheet, applying a bonding agent to the opposite face of said sheet, said applying step including applying a bonding agent to said opposite face in a pattern delimiting pockets with the bonding agent being immediately adjacent to one edge of said slits, said die cutting step including providing spaced parallel slits, folding said sheet along said transverse line so that the bonding agent is between the sheet halves and joins the sheet halves, then folding the sheet in a central region along a line perpendicular to said transverse line so that the folder resembles a book with the slits on the inside faces.
 7. A method in accordance with claim 6 wherein said step of applying a bonding agent includes applying a cohesive in a matching pattern on both halves of said opposite face.
 8. A method in accordance with claim 1 wherein said sheet is a sheet of heavy paper.
 9. A method in accordance with claim 1 wherein said printing step includes printing on said one face on opposite sides of the transverse score line. 